Deep Purple’s Live In Paris 1975 is out on 29 January. Recorded on 17 April 1975 at the Palais des Sports in Paris, this was the last concert with lauded guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, before he left to form Rainbow. The other band members are vocalist David Coverdale, bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, keyboardist Jon Lord, and drummer Ian Paice. Tracks include "Burn," "Stormbringer," "Highway Star," "Space Truckin,'" and the evergreen "Smoke on the Water.”

Meanwhile, Deep Purple’s current singer has been talking about the band’s new 2013 album

“It’s being mixed as we speak,” Ian Gillan told 100percentrock.com. “We’ve finished recording. It’s a new tone, it’s a new direction, it’s fresh stuff. I think it was all written and recorded in Nashville, and the reason we went there – not to make a country record, but because Bob Ezrin, our producer, lives in Nashville and so it made a lot of sense because he had all the studio facilities and back up and everything else. So it made it really easy.”

“I can’t compare it with any other album either, as far as I know. It will obviously find a niche somewhere when it comes out in April, so I’m looking forward to hearing it.”